🎉 Nextcloud becomes part of the federated social networks! - nextcloud/social

Nextcloud Social is a new app in alpha testing! It is currently developing deeper ActivityPub inegration so you can connect with other federated social networks: Hubzilla, Mastodon, Pleroma, Peertube, PixelFed. Diaspora* protocol will add support for SocialHome and others! This kind of integration has been discussed many times!

Frank knows him quite well, we’ve been talking to them about some collaboration. Let’s see what happens… The problem with this and other projects (like hubzilla) is that they tend to have promise - but only a small ecosystem right now. Often, Nextcloud’s existing ecosystem is 10 to 100x larger already and thus if we put in a developer month in integration it is of far less benefit to our average user than if we’d put that same month into simply improving Nextcloud. Of course, we always welcome …

This open source video sharing app could be quite interesting to integrate (needs node.js though) or replicate in Nextcloud:
It basically hosts a video file in a federated way through ActivityPub… so similar to how file federation works in Nextcloud, but in addition it enables a browser based P2P (torrent based using https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent ) connection to lower the strain to the server.
This is used for video streaming, but could also be used to host large files that are do…

What I am wondering is:
How does this related to ActivityPub as I think Nextcloud’s current federated sharing system is working though this W3C standard. Is this yet another incompatible API (obligatory xkcd comic here), or does it actually work with the wider ActivityPub fediverse?

It means you’ll need to be running Nextcloud 15 and make your Nextcloud instance accessible to the world wide web over https on port 443 as @Cult mentioned. This will allow other federated services (Mastodon, Pleroma, Hubzilla, etc.) to be able to find and federate with your Nextcloud instance.

Hopefully soon I can update my installation. Currently only 14 is offered as the latest version in the admin interface. After this had been done, I can do intense testing with Friendica, which offers ActivityPub in the upcoming version as well.

In preparation to this tests, possibly a developer of this app can answer some question?